They were up at 5. When I got up a couple hours later they were having a lot of fun, with August putting things down Carly’s shirt and Carly putting things in his hood. I joined in the fun. He and I played some more, then took care of a couple of the Duplo animals. Carly went and started vacuuming. He used a book to make wind “This book makes wind? All books make wind?” We then read Berenstain Bears Get in a Fight and at the end he got a little upset that I wouldn’t buy a new Berenstain Bears book right away. He went out and investigated the vacuum cleaner, asking Carly all sorts of questions about it.
I sorted out some of his clothes that are small. He sort of helped. He also put things in a pair of shorts and pants. We then read The Cat in the Hat Comes Back and The Cat in the Hat. He did help with recycling, then when I said I was going to take it down he said he was going with me. He wanted his orange shoes, and wore them without socks. We took his bike down, and he helped put in some of the recycling. It was funny how the guys down there reacted. August found a bottle cap on the ground and one guy helped him find the right bag. Then, I was having him pour in the milk cartons, but the other guy came along and poured it in for us. Then, I handed August the styrofoam and the same guy took it out of August’s hands and threw it in. August said “I wanted to do it.” But then he was able to do the metal and glass stuff, so it was okay.
Then we walked home. As we walked by Mama Juice he noticed it was open and wanted some. I told him we should talk to Mama and maybe go later. At home, he got Carly’s shoes and said”Be a robot with mama’s shoes.” I took a shower. After I got out, he was using one of Carly’s skirts to make wind. They nursed, but he was grabbing or something and he got upset when they had to stop. A bit later though they were starting to read Ramona Quimby, Age 8.
We left at 9:55. August said he was walking, so none of us noticed the bike wasn’t in the hall. I then spotted it down where we had parked it near recycling. August hopped on and we headed out. I asked him where we should go, and he said “bike decide”. We ended up walking over to the stream. We just walked up and around, and were home by 10:30.
At home, he said “I want to always live in Korea.” Then a bit later “Dada loves you so much. Not as much as mama.” I was looking at our vacuum cleaners to fix the clip – our ‘new’ one had a missing clip to keep the bag in place, and I replaced it from the one from the old one. August spent a lot of time inspecting the two vacuums and pretending to have them suck things up.
Carly had written a list, and we then all headed to Home Plus at 10:50. There, August needed to use the bathroom, so Carly went ahead and started shopping. No luck finding vacuum cleaner bags (we want to take a good supply to Israel), so will have to look elsewhere. August and I played with the toys again – mainly the cars, then went down to help finish with the shopping. We then came home and he helped me put the groceries away, handing things to me.
He had pointed out the watermelon at Home Plus, so Carly cut it up for him and they ate watermelon. I asked which he loved more, and he said he loved watermelon more than mama. I made a salmon sandwich for lunch and we ate that, then read the Poli book We Are Ready! from his most recent class.
I then gave him a bath (he hadn’t had one last night) and we watched Pirates of the Caribbean and then started Pink Panther – the 1,000,000th customer and pizza episodes. While he kept watching those in the reading area I started his haircut. Carly then finished. Carly then did some vacuuming and August wanted her to stop and was yelling “Now stop!”
There was a little lightning and we knew a storm was coming, but thought we’d go outside for a few minutes. A bit too late, as it started to pour as we were about ready. We We Are Ready! again. I folded some of my shirts to pack and he tried one of them on and played around.
Carly had made nutty noodles so August had some. We then read some Dr. Seuss: Gustav, some Mayzie, and something else. Carly wanted to sit in the reading area but realized there were no pillows – August had hauled them into the bedroom earlier. He then went and came back carrying two pillows for her. Very sweet. They cuddled, then he tried on a pair of pants that I brought. They were too big, so we went with his number pants.
Carly needed some rest time, so he and I left at 5 – the storm had passed. We rode around the parks, and he pointed at the Slice Image David statue and said he liked it. We then went in the art museum to look at art. We went downstairs, and he spent a good amount of time looking at the moving U Ram Choi sculpture. An attendant warned me that a kid had fallen over the little wall the other day and broken a tooth. We then went up the elevator to the second floor. He really wanted to get something (dessert, that is) at the coffee shop, but I convinced him otherwise. We looked at some of the art on the second floor, then he needed to go to the bathroom. Back to the first floor for that, and he looked at the exhibit sign that had punctuation marks in big plastic pieces. I asked if he wanted to go look at more art or leave. He said “On the bike. Head home. And find mama.”
We left at 5:45, but didn’t head straight home. Instead, he somehow got his arm out of his sleeve, through the neck hole. He liked it, and got off the bike and started running around. When I tried to get him he ran away, so I chased him. I brought him back by the bike, and he used the hanging sleeve as a vacuum cleaner, sucking everything up.
We got back on the bike, but then found a puddle with yellow pollen in it. He wanted to stop, and used a stick in it. It made the pollen swirl around, making vortices and spirals. He wrote “fancy letters” then was doing what we called “pollen art”. Did that quite awhile until, as I was telling him to be careful when people were walking by, he lightly hit a woman with his stick. I took his stick away and he got upset. We talked through it, and he got his stick back, but he was done.
We were home at 6:35. They nursed, then he ate dinner. Since he was having pasta, he wanted to see how pasta was made. We found two videos of pasta machines, which he really liked, then he wanted to keep watching and the next video was of a ground beef machine. After that, he asked about macaroni specifically, and we found a Mr. Roger’s vide on macaroni, which was followed by construction paper and crayons.
After that he headed to bed. Before going to sleep he commented on how he wants my birthday cake now. He was asleep about 7:45.
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